 
Once you have a good grasp of Photoshop fundamentals, Photoshop CS2 Artistry should find its way to your shelf. It is written by Barry Haynes, Wendy Crumpler and is a master class for Photographers, Artist in the difficult art of digital imaging. It is for serious professional photographers and digital artists who need to produce expert imagery, an in-depth course for users that want to produce exceptional images. I have learned a lot myself and think this book is by far the best book I have found for Photoshop users moving up to Photoshop CS because it clearly explains the changes.
The new edition for Photoshop CS2 is a total re-design in wider format, with larger text, better layout and with new materials and examples focused totally towards photographers, especially digital photographers. If you use or teach with our previous editions, you'll like this edition much more. This edition also contains a DVD with full sized RAW files and Photoshop layer files, all files for the many step-by-step examples, File Browser automation examples, lots more images as well as actions, shortcut menus and keys and many other useful items. The examples are carefully chosen and the included CD of tutorials well thought out. The index is another wonder: not just a blind text search of where each word appears, but leads you to clear, concise instructions to solving the problem at hand.
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 Photoshop restoration and Retouching Photoshop Restoration and Retouching, 3nd Ed. by Katrin Eismann. This is the best reference for any retouching needs - be it restoring a scan of an ancient negative (her B&W techniques worked wonders on scans of a set of late 1800's glass plates I worked on) to making wholesale changes that would get you kicked out of any newsroom in the land. The book is also fun to read and work along with. Ms. Eismann's passion for both Photoshop and photography comes through on every page. ...there's a Photoshop CS chapter of 45 pages in PDF at: the digitalretouch.org. However if you are new to Photoshop this book is not one of the more easy to read as it does not start from a novice level. But if you really want to learn to master Photoshop this is one of the books you should own. Especially of you work with digital images, scanned or from your digital camera. I have all three editions and the last one, for CS2, I received from Amazon com end of august 2006 which shows how much I value this author and her books.
Katrin Eismann "Photoshop Masking & Compositing"
Even as a straight photographer you need selections in Photoshop more than you may like. Believe me this is an art by itself (especially if you want to make them as fast as possible). Selections are the basis for great masks. Katrin even writes in her book it should have been titled "Selections, Masking & Compositing". But of course that would be a long title. I am currently starting to read this over 500 pages book and find it more than just exciting. For me the excellent and simple introduction to Quick Masks would be worth the book alone. I learned in one hour a lot of useful techniques about selections. Even is you never plan to combine images in your life this is the essential book for creating first class selections.
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 Real World Photoshop CS2 by David Blatner, Bruce Fraser If previous editions are a guide, this is sure to be the best single PS-CS reference available. In this copiously illustrated volume, best-selling authors David Blatner and Bruce Fraser offer scads of hands-on production techniques as well as clear explanations of the concepts that drive them, so that you can get the best results possible on your own Photoshop CS2 projects. You'll learn about managing color, getting great scans, correcting tones and colors, and more. You also find complete coverage of all of Photoshop CS2's newest features: integration with Adobe Bridge; Vanishing Point; super-tight integration with the rest of Adobe's Creative Suite 2; and more.
For my Swedish friends my best recommendation to learn how to improve your images after scanning is -Bättre bilder i tryck- ISBN 91-073575-2-9 av Mattias Nyman. Avsnittet om - det digitala mörkrummer- är stor kunskap även för er som även jobbar med Photoshop och bilder för Internet.Boken börjar ta slut på förlaget men verkar fortfarande finnas på Akademibokhandeln
 Boken Grafisk kokbok 3.0 : guiden till grafisk produktion av Kaj Johansson, Peter Lundberg och Robert Ryberg är en kunskapskälla att ösa ur när det gäller digital bildhantering. Lärde mig mycket själv här också när det gäller ett ämne som färglära.
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